Which statement best evaluates the reasoning in this excerpt from “Video Game Rage”? Adachi concluded that people who played highly competitive games behaved more aggressively than those who played the less competitive games. “Even younger kids, if they’re playing these games, a lot of the time they know that playing this Call of Duty shooter game or whatever it is, is a fantasy-type thing,” said Adachi. “It’s not something that’s real … whereas the competition in the games is more real.” The reasoning is not sound: Adachi's position is highly influenced by media reports that link video games to violence. The reasoning is sound; Adachi's position is logical and based on the results of his experiments and observations. The reasoning is not sound; Adachi bases his position on his own instinctive beliefs and personal feelings. The reasoning is sound; Adachi uses a wide range of specific facts and statistics to support his position.

Which techniques does president reagan use in this excerpt? select three options. pathos ethos shift understatement overstatement mark this and return save and exit

Name two events that gatsby tells nick about that nick finds suspect . what proof does gatsby offer ?

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds. beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it. forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire. then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run. which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by. the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed. the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot. the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.